it's little known but highly effective tax rebate for the poor, earned income tax credit. yesterday in a 200-plus page report in the failures on poverty, budget chair paul ryan wrote, research finds that the best anti-poverty programs encourage work, programs like the earned income tax credit increase labor force participation. the president likes the earned income tax credit and paul ryan likes the earned income tax credit. so how did mr. ryan respond to the president's overture one day later? quote, this budget isn't a serious document, he said in a statement this morning, it is a campaign brochure. in divided government, we need leadership and collaboration, and in this budget, we have neither. collaboration like working together to further the same policy? apparently not. congressman ryan was not the only republican to chime in. speaker boehner called the president's proposal his most irresponsible budget yet. speaking as the man who stood idly by while his party shut down the federal government and nearly crashed the u.s. economy, not but six months ago speaker boehne